#26: Gavan Hennigan – Extreme Environment Athlete

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Gavan Hennigan is an Irish extreme environment athlete.

In his day job, Gavan is a deep-sea saturation diver, diving to depths of up to 200m performing heavy construction on oil rigs – often spending up to a month at a time under water.

In his down time, Gavan surfs, snowboards and climbs high altitude peaks in the Himalayas.

Gavan also runs extreme ultramarathons, having recently completed two of the longest and toughest winter ultras on Earth – the 566km Likeys 6633 ultra, inside the Arctic circle.. and the 500km Yukon Arctic Ultra.